Social media is a modern person's digital voice to project and engage with new ideas and
mobilise communities—a power shared with extremists. Given the societal risks of unvetted …

The past decade has witnessed burgeoning efforts among governments to prevent people
from developing a commitment to violent extremism (conceived of as a process of …

In recent years, researchers have shown a vested interest in developing advanced
information technologies, machine-learning algorithms, and risk-assessment tools to detect …

Social media interactions are popularly implicated in psychological changes like
radicalization. However, there are currently no viable methods to assess whether social …

Background More so than face-to-face counseling, users of online text-based services might
drop out from a session before establishing a clear closure or expressing the intention to …

Purpose–This chapter examines how sentiment analysis and web-crawling technology can
be used to conduct large-scale data analyses of extremist content online. Methods/approach …

The ease of use of the Internet has enabled violent extremists such as the Islamic State of
Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to easily reach large audience, build personal relationships and …

Over the past years, political events and public opinion on the Web have been allegedly
manipulated by accounts dedicated to spreading disinformation and performing malicious …

The number and lethality of violent extremist plots motivated by the Salafi-jihadist ideology
have been growing for nearly the last decade in many parts of the world including both the …

The search in graph databases for individuals or entities undertaking latent or emergent
behaviors has applicability in the areas of homeland security, consumer analytics …